fugitive vs felon

fugitive and felon both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
fugitive	Yes	Yes	No	No
felon	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, felon is a hypernym of fugitive; that is, felon is a word with a broader meaning than fugitive:

fugitive: someone who is sought by law officers; someone trying to elude justice
felon: someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime

Other hypernyms of fugitive include criminal, crook, malefactor, outlaw.

fugitive (noun)	felon (noun)
someone who is sought by law officers; someone trying to elude justice	someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime
someone who flees from an uncongenial situation	a purulent infection at the end of a finger or toe in the area surrounding the nail

fugitive (adjective)	felon (adjective)
lasting for a markedly brief time